The linguistic expression of the perfect aspect associated with the present in progressive dementia

• Autor(a) principal: Gomes, Jean Carlos da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Martins, Adriana Leitão, Rodrigues, Fernanda de Carvalho
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Domínios de Lingu@gem
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/dominiosdelinguagem/article/view/70318
• topic: Aspecto perfect; Doença de Alzheimer; Afasia Progressiva Primária Logopênica; Tempo e aspecto; Neurolinguística; Perfect aspect; Alzheimer's Disease; Logopenic Primary Progressive Aphasia; Tense and aspect; Neurolinguistics; Aspecto perfecto; Enfermedad de Alzheimer; Afasia Progresiva Primaria Logopénica; Tiempo y aspecto; Neurolingüística

In this work, the syntactic representation of the perfect aspect was investigated, evaluating the pertinence of the phrases related to this aspect – perfect of persistent situation or universal perfect (UPerfP), perfect of result (ResPerfP), perfect of recent past (RecPerfP) and experiential perfect (ExPerfP) – and the hierarchy established among them described in the literature. Therefore, a study was undertaken on a possible linguistic impairment of this aspect in subjects diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and in those diagnosed with Logopenic Primary Progressive Aphasia (LPPA). Two patients diagnosed with AD and one patient diagnosed with LPPA were selected. In order to evaluate the linguistic realizations of the perfect aspect in the subjects' production, data were collected from their semi-spontaneous speech productions, and, in order to verify the subjects' degree of cognitive impairment, the Mini-Mental State Examination cognitive screening test (MMSE) was applied. It was observed that the patient with LPPA and one patient with AD presented a linguistic deficit only on the perfect of recent past, having the second patient a better performance than the first one in the MMSE, while the other patient with AD presented a deficit that also affected other types of perfect, having underperformed the two other patients in the MMSE. It was argued that the data obtained in this study corroborate the proposal of Gomes, Martins e Rodrigues (2021) in which the hierarchy established between the perfect phrases in the syntactic representation is as follows: RecPerfP> ExPerfP> UPerfP> ResPerfP.